In the last few years, the rights of students in North Carolina universities have received some significant new protections. It is important that state legislators and educators continue to do so, for such rights—pertaining to free speech and due process of punitive proceedings—have been under assault on college campuses nationwide in recent years.
A sad fact about some of today’s college students—particularly those of the leftist variety—is that they place greater value on their emotions and ideology than they do on tolerance, sensibility, and free speech.
It is heartwarming to see state officials do the jobs they were elected to do. Too often they have shied away from their obligations to ensure that the university system adheres to appropriate standards of scholarship.
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Professor Lazere’s response doesn’t rebuild his case that higher ed should have a leftist bias.
Sure—as long as you haven’t previously said anything to offend groups that now hold trump cards.
The proliferation of identity politics on our campuses is destroying intellectual vitality.
N.C. student groups have been undermined by policies that encroach on free speech and freedom of association.
